Altmetrics is an emergent research area whereby social media is applied as a source of
metrics to assess scholarly impact. In the last few years, the interest in altmetrics has grown …

With increasing uptake among researchers, social media are finding their way into scholarly
communication and, under the umbrella term altmetrics, are starting to be utilized in …

Becoming Metric-Wise: A Bibliometric Guide for Researchers aims to inform researchers
about metrics so that they become aware of the evaluative techniques being applied to their …

Usage data of scholarly articles provide a direct way to explore the usage preferences of
users. Using the “Usage Count” provided by the Web of Science platform, we collect and …

Purpose To provide an overview of altmetrics, including their potential benefits and
limitations, how they may be obtained, and their role in assessing pharmacoepidemiologic …

In this study we analyse the key driving factors of preprints in enhancing scholarly
communication. To this end we use four groups of metrics, one referring to scholarly …

The objective of this paper is to explore the impact of preprints in scholarly and broader
scientific communication. In particular, the following four indicators are used to examine the …

Research on the impact of and attention given to journal covers is a crucial research topic in
academia. This study investigated whether a paper featured on the cover of a journal …

The new web-based academic communication platforms do not only enable researchers to
better advertise their academic outputs, making them more visible than ever before, but they …

This study analyzed 16,799 journal papers and 98,773 conference papers published by
IEEE Xplore in 2016 to investigate the relationships among usage counts, Mendeley …